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Job Search
Okay, gang, I need help finding a job.
My shiny new degree is in Education Policy and Social Foundations; I can research and write about education policy. I can teach, administer, or develop courses for adult learning, including online learning. I enjoy public speaking, and can teach absolutely anything I've had time to learn. I can train ( Read more... ) -
Names, part umpteenth
Frankly, I'm hoping to provoke some response with this one. I'm leaving it open to the public, so play nice, y'all, or I'll shut it back down and probably tell on you ( Read more... ) -
What's the truth to this?
A web designer chum says that as far as he knows, a black screen consumes as much energy as a white one - it's still pixels turned on. Anybody got any comments on this?
Energy Saving Google Screen: If Google had a black screen, taking in
account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750
mega watts/hour per year would be saved.
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Surgery update
Well, the good news is that I don't have a screw loose. I have a screw missing entirely, but that's not the problem. We aren't sure what is. We cut the immediate problem out and are hoping my superb healing abilities take over and establish normalcy. And that my surgeon gives me the go-ahead to leave for Pennsic next week. I foresee warm salt ( Read more... ) -
Seeking the Screw
(Anybody can get that kind).
Surgery scheduled next week, I start antibiotics tomorrow. We're going after what may or may not be a loose screw. Mind you, the whole reason it's there at all is 'cause they couldn't get it out last time. Sheared the head right off.
There used to be three of them, screws that wouldn't come out. Only two show up on x- ( Read more... ) -
Screw loose
I have a screw loose in my head. Literally. One of the surgical screws seems to be working its way out. It's rather strangely painful. I'm trying to find out whether it will come all the way out, whether it should be coming out.,what it might be taking with it..the heads have been sheared off by the surgeon, who waited too long to try to take ( Read more... ) -
Happy Independence Day
I celebrated Independence Day with one of my favorite things, going for a long bike ride. The kind you pedal.
The Library of Congress has made a whole bunch of new documents available, including Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration, scratch-outs and all:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt001.html
Gotta go - to my fave bbq all year ( Read more... ) -
Links
Some very cool new visual technology coming from MS. I can see some privacy issues, but still very intriguing.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
And this related development:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid932579976?bclid=932553050&bctid=933742930
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Offline
l am offline until I get my computer fixed, which may be tonight or may be next week. We'll see if a repair install will work or if my gut is right and I need a new motherboard...